So happy to have captured this — my best astro photo to date. This is, of course, the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor at a stone’s throw of 2.5 million light years away. You can also see M110 and M32, its two brightest satellite galaxies (out of a whopping 35 dwarf galaxies orbiting around it). Shot with a Dwarf 3 telescope under a starry Idaho night sky, which was stunning even with the naked eye.
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@bluejay@ohai.social very cool! The spirals turned out quite nice. How long was the exposure time ?
Better than the ones I captured with my Seestar S50 yet. For Andromeda it' s a bit of a challenge because the FOV is smaller, so it needs to do a "mosaic" .